Learn to make simple cheeses at home with equipment available in your kitchen

Enjoyable cheese making classes, including cheese tasting, a Dairy Tour and your finished cheeses to take home, ideal for the cheese lover.
Our Cheese making courses are unique in that we are a working Cheese Dairy, and during the course we will spend some time touring the dairy to see how cheese is made on a bigger scale, we find that this can be very helpful for our students.

Cheese Making Courses at the Cheese Barn, High Weald Dairy.

A recent course attendee wrote, ‘A wonderful day. The sense of achievement at the end of the day when I left with my own cheese was great. All was made so interesting and clear. I loved the hands on course. The lunch was fab too.’

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Introduction to Making Soft and Hard Cheese at Home

Our course is suitable for all those interested in learning and gaining hands on experience on how cheese is made, and will cover the making of a soft fresh cheese and a hard cheddar style cheese. Teams of 2 will work together and each cheese maker will be able to take their two cheeses home to eat or to mature further. It will enable you to make simple cheeses at home using basic home utensils.

We will also demonstrate how to turn 10 litres of milk into another cheese during the day, such as Mozzeralla or Halloumi, so there is alot to learn!

Home made Lunch followed by a Cheese Tasting of some 5 or 8 of our different types of cheese.

Completion of the cheese making;

Soft Cheese; draining, salt addition, and other flavours.

Hard Cheese, Milling, salting and pressing.

At a convenient point, there will be a Tour of the Dairy to watch cheese making on a larger scale and a visit to the cheese maturing room. We find that the Tour of the Dairy will make alot of what we have discusses earlier, fall into place and become much clearer.

Course Finish at approximately 3.30 - 4.00 pm

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Your Course Tutors.

Mark Hardy has had over 25 years experience in cheese making, using cow, sheep and goat milk, covering most cheese types and is passionate about cheese. He explains the process in simple down to earth language and ensures everyone has a relaxed but educational day and leaves with the knowledge and confidence to make cheese at home.

Chris Heyes. Originally a marketeer in publishing, Chris has been making cheese now for 18 months, and has an infectious enthusiam for all thing cheese and food related. Chris will also be cooking our lunch on the day. Making cheese always gives one an appetite!

Sarah Hardy.

Although not a cheese maker, Sarah organises us all and makes sure that everyone attending is happy and looked after, and feels at home on the day.

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Finish approx 3:30pm - 4 pm

Cost of Course & Lunch: £155

Each delegate will take the cheeses (over 1 kg of cheese!) they made during the day home, ready to eat immediately, or to mature on for 2 - 3 months until mature.

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Some basic small scale cheese making equipment will be available to purchase, such as rennet, starters, cheese cloth, cheese molds, cheese presses, cheese making books, and small cheese making kits on the day.

HOME CHEESEMAKING SUPPLIES:

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